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2B XL LIFE/ Cliailom *0«t Thursday, August 31, 2006 AIDS activist lives to educate black women Continued from page 1B althoi^h she has the fuH- blown disease. Tb keep others from making the same mis takes, Roseborou^ started the Rasberrirose Foundation, which tai^ets girls between the ages of 10 and 16 in Mecklenburg Covmty Though her foundation, Roseborough speaks at schools and churches about HIV and AIDS and tehii^ , her story Though she’s appreciative of the opportuni ty to reach people, she says that it can’t just be during National AIDS Testing Day or Black Church Week of Praj’er. “This is somethii^ that we need to talk about every day,” she said, “God has somelhing for me to do and my life here isn’t over.” Roseborough said she hopes to be the female Earvin “Magic” Johnson and inter national attention to AIDS in black women. After she was hospitalized in 2004 with pneumonia, she said that she was bom again “God left me here to speak publicly about (AIDS).” So . she started working on her autobiography, ‘Tut It On Paper.” The last line of h^ book says, “this is not the end, this is the beginning of whatever He (The Creator) has in store.” Roseborough’s life hasn’t stopped. She continues to date and discloses her iLLness right away “I’m not dead” she said. ‘You keep it real, ■) Steps to curb college drinking added that’s what I do. I can’t sugar coat this. You let them know and it’s their choice.” Roseborou^ doesn’t blame the pa^on who infected her, saying that she can’t point a finger without pointing back at herseh- “Like my mom says, it’s all about choices and I think it would’ve helped if I had some one doing a program like what I’m doing now,” she said. Growing up, Roseborough said she lacked a relationship with her father and thoio^ she doesn’t say that’s what caused her to make bad choic es, that void contributed to it. As she writes in her book, “I made my share of mistakes and I learned frcan mine and others, I hope do the same.” For more information on the Rasberrirose Foundation, log on to www.rasberrirose.org. Continued from page 1B them aU. ... Yet the reality is that when a student becomes excessively intoxicated, all the instruction they may have had rapidly disap pears.” While the lacrosse case made headlines, alcohol has been linked to a broad rar^ of campus issues, from acade mic trouble and hazing to alcoholism and date rape. In May, researchers at the Wake Forest University Schcx)! of Medicine released a study that found that mem bers or pledges of fraternities and sororities were twice as likely to get drunk at least once p^ week compared to non-Greek students. As a result, they were at hi^CT risk of injurir^ themselves co’ others, according to the three- semester survey that involved more than 10,000 students at 10 in-state uni versities. The study also reported that female pledges and sorority members who got drunk weekly were more than twice as likely to be sex ually assaulted as non-Greek students who didn’t get drunk weekly Universities have tried poh- des that indude stepped-up enforcement of campus drinking rules, working with off-campus authorities to notify the university when students are dted and plan- nii^ more alcchd-free sodal events on campus. But prob lems persist. In a 2002 survey published two years later by the Harvard School of Public Health, 81 percent of 747 school administrators at four- year colleges described stu dents’ alcohol use as a prob lem or a mjgor problem on their campus. That was up from 68 percent in a similar 1999 study Steinbach noted that courts have moved away finm the notion that colleges are de facto parents for students, with most recent dedsions finding that schools are limit ed in their ability to regulate student behavior outside of school hours and off campus. Still, Amy Geoige, national communications manager with Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Irving, Tfexas, believes colleges must “have the strongest polities possi ble.” “’Ihey absolutely have the obligation to students and the community to provide the safest environment possible,” George said. “That’s the ddi- cate balance. ... It’s not trying to lessen a personal responsi bility by students, but a lot of times they respond to an envi ronment where it’s encour aged or condoired on a that time leads to a two- semester suspension fium school. In addition, Georgia is requiring freshmen to com plete an online alcohol educa tion course before they can register for spring dasses. ‘We realize it’s not just the University of (Seorgia or any one campus,” said Dr. Pat Daugherty, assistant vice president for student affairs in Athens, Ga. “We’ve got to have multi-proi^ed approaches because there’s no magic bullet. ... We’re not trying to kill peo ple’s fim. We want the stu dents to be healthy safe and l^al.” At Duke, the lacrosse case also brought to ligjit alcohol- related criminal charges against several team players. A university committee that investigated the inddent noted that while the team performed well academically and athletically, "a large number of the members of the team have been sodaUy irresponsible when imder the influence of alcohol.” How to foster responsibility while allowdng yormg adults their fieedom remains a vex ing problem—at Duke and elsewhere. On the Net: http:/hvww£icenet.edu Harvard School of Public Health, College Alcohol Study: http://www.hsph Jiarvard£du/cas/ Mothers Against Drunk Driving: http://wwwjnaddorg University of Georgia: http://wwwMga£du campus. This year, the University of Georgia—prompted by a party-school reputation and the alcohol- and drug-related death of a student in January—is trying some thing new. Underage stu dents who are caught drink ing win have thdr parents notified and will be placed on probation for an initial viola tion. A second offense during AmefiCare Health '‘Sugar Creek” Medkal center 721 W. 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